# Report 2020-01

## News

 - [Samsung smart TVs are set to upload screenshots of what you’re watching](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2020/01/samsung-smart-tvs-are-set-to-upload-screenshots-of-what-youre-watching/)
 - [Anger over use of facial recognition at south Wales football derby](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/12/anger-over-use-facial-recognition-south-wales-football-derby-cardiff-swansea)
 - [Half of the websites using WebAssembly use it for malicious purposes](https://www.zdnet.com/article/half-of-the-websites-using-webassembly-use-it-for-malicious-purposes/)
 - [The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html)
 - [Thousands of Chinese Students’ Data Exposed on Internet](https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-chinese-students-data-exposed-on-internet-11579283410)
 - [Galaxy users, take note: Samsung's probably selling your data](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3514999/samsung-selling-data.html)
 - [Belgian Data Protection Authority warns supermarket chain Carrefour about biometric data collection](https://www.biometricupdate.com/202001/belgian-data-protection-authority-warns-supermarket-chain-carrefour-about-biometric-data-collection)
 - [Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers)

## Data Breaches

 - [HappyHotel, popular search engine for love hotels in Japan discloses data breach ](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/96057/hacking/happyhotel-data-breach.html)
 - [Medical info of 49,351 patients exposed in Alomere Health hospital breach](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/96115/breaking-news/alomere-health-hospital-breach.html)
 - [56.25 million US residents records collected by CheckPeople exposed on a Chinese server](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/96238/data-breach/checkpeople-data-leak.html)
 - [Report: Adult Site Leaks Extremely Sensitive Data](https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-pussycash-leak/)
 - [P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed](https://www.zdnet.com/article/p-n-bank-discloses-data-breach-customer-pii-account-information-stolen/)
 - [Online Pharmacy PlanetDrugsDirect Discloses Security Breach](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/online-pharmacy-planetdrugsdirect-discloses-security-breach/)
 - [Data Breach Exposes Personal Details of Over 30,000 U.S. Cannabis Users](https://www.newsweek.com/thsuite-data-breach-marijuana-dispensaries-personal-information-leaked-exposed-1483645)
 - [Sprint Exposed Customer Support Site to Web](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/sprint-exposed-customer-support-site-to-web/)


## Paper/Report

 - [Out of Control: How consumers are exploited by the adtech industry - and what we are doing to make it stop](https://www.forbrukerradet.no/out-of-control/)
 - [Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02479)  
 - [New Kid on the Web: A Study on thePrevalence of WebAssembly in the Wild](https://www.sec.cs.tu-bs.de/pubs/2019a-dimva.pdf)
 - [Characterizing Smart Home IoT Traffic in the Wild](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08288)
 - [Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses inthe tracking ecosystem](https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02435622/document)
